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is simply nonsense.
I teach the art of living.
Not of renouncing, but of rejoicing.
Q: WOULD YOU SAY THAT ANY OF THIS YOU OWE TO HINDUISM?
A: No.
Q: WOULD YOU SAY THAT ANY OF YOUR PROVINCE(*) YOU OWE TO HINDUISM?
A: No.
Q: WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS ASSEMBLY THAT NOW SURROUNDS YOU WITH BARE FEET, SITTING CROSSLEGGED, OWES SOMETHING TO HINDUISM?
A: No, nothing, nothing.
Q: HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THEY ALL SAT ON CHAIRS?
A: They can. Nobody is preventing.
Q: BUT NONETHELESS, YOU ARE THE GURU AND THEY ARE DISCIPLES.
A: No. I am not the guru and they are not the disciples. I am just a friend and they are my fellow travellers. And it is not expected from my side that they should be grateful to me.
But if being with me they feel love, they feel gratitude, that's a totally different story. It is not expected, it is simply a happening.
Q: HAS ALL THIS SURPRISED YOU, THE FACT THAT YOU'VE BECOME VERY FAMOUS, INTERNATIONAL FAME, AS A BOY FROM MADHYA PRADESH?
A: It just appears to me a misfortune. It was far more beautiful not to be known at all. It had more freedom, more silence.
Q: I THINK IN MANALI SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO YOU SPOKE. WAS THAT ONE OF YOUR FIRST MEETINGS?
A: Not my first meetings but the first time I started the movement of sannyas. And it seems we have come round the whole circle.
Q: IS THAT WHAT DREW YOU BACK TO THIS PLACE?
A: Ya, I love this place.
Q: DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF AS AN INDIAN?
A: No. I never think in terms of any division: of nation, of religion, of caste, of color... no. I belong to this earth and the whole earth belongs to me.
Q: AND YOUR FAMILY, YOUR MOTHER AND (INAUDIBLE). THEY ARE YOUR SANNYASINS (INAUDIBLE). HAS THAT BEEN CONFUSING; THE FACT THAT YOUR MOTHER IS A DISCIPLE OF YOURS AS WELL AS YOUR OWN MOTHER?
A: No, not at all. Because to be a mother is nothing special. Every woman is doing it and all the animals are doing it. But to be a mother and yet to have courage enough to listen to one's own son is something special and rare and in that way my family is rare. My father was a disciple,
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